Hello, WORLD!! Smokkee Singleton here again, this time with a review of one of the movies that made me fall in love with cinema and redheads as well. I'm talking about MALICE starring a young Nicole Kidman, Alec Baldwin, and one of cinema's most underrated everymen, Bill Pullman. I just recently reconnected with this movie trying to introduce it to my wife Leiatonia. She usually doesn't share my cinematic tastes, preferring cookie cut rom-coms and comedies to movies that actually stay with you when your done. However, not only did MALICE catch her interest it held it to the very end. So if I can get her to like it, convincing you should be a piece of cake.
MALICE is the tale of college dean Andy Saifian played by Pullman and his wife Tracy, played by Kidman. The university where Andy works has a serial rapist running around and a new head physician named Jed Hill, played by Baldwin. End of synapsis. Seriously. I can't tell you anything else, plot-wise. If you think I'm going to ruin this movie for you with any more details you're wrong but if you think there's a chance you know where this movie is going you're absolutely crazy. The beauty of this film is watching how the plot unfolds then unravels into a hodge podge of genres. What started off as what I thought was gonna be a police procedural turned into, well, something else.
The acting is superb. Bill Pullman is a pro at playing clueless and here he's at his dense best. Baldwin, while a lil bit over the top in some scenes, is almost spot on; that over the topness is exactly what was needed. Oh, and Kidman is flawless. Her character has some of the greatest scenes and she nails them. Then there's BeBe Neuwirth of CHEERS fame who plays the police captain Dana Harris that's hot on the rapist's trail and who happens to be a friend of Andy's. There's cameoes by Hollywood greats George C Scott and Anne Bancroft and, if you pay attention, you'll also catch a glimpse of a pre-stardom Gweneth Paltrow as an unlucky student and a pre-SAW sighting of Tobin Bell as the school's custodian.
I hate movies like this for one reason: I can't tell you nothing!!! There's nothing else I can tell you without giving something away but if you need more to go on, you can click here to watch the trailer. If you see this movie off the strength that I said it won't waste your anyway, please let me know by commenting or by a Tweet to @MrGBIZ via Twitter.
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The acting is superb. Bill Pullman is a pro at playing clueless and here he's at his dense best. Baldwin, while a lil bit over the top in some scenes, is almost spot on; that over the topness is exactly what was needed. Oh, and Kidman is flawless. Her character has some of the greatest scenes and she nails them. Then there's BeBe Neuwirth of CHEERS fame who plays the police captain Dana Harris that's hot on the rapist's trail and who happens to be a friend of Andy's. There's cameoes by Hollywood greats George C Scott and Anne Bancroft and, if you pay attention, you'll also catch a glimpse of a pre-stardom Gweneth Paltrow as an unlucky student and a pre-SAW sighting of Tobin Bell as the school's custodian.
I hate movies like this for one reason: I can't tell you nothing!!! There's nothing else I can tell you without giving something away but if you need more to go on, you can click here to watch the trailer. If you see this movie off the strength that I said it won't waste your anyway, please let me know by commenting or by a Tweet to @MrGBIZ via Twitter.
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